Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
We are but shadows: we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream — till the heart be touched. That touch creates us — then we begin to be — thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
Keep the imagination sane — that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
All gloom is but a dream and a shadow… cheerfulness is the real truth. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
Man is never deceived; he deceives himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
If you would do something, you must be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word. Jeanne Guyon (1648 – 1717)